Catalog Search Results
1) From Pen to Profit: The Complete Guide to Writing, Self-Publishing and Marketing Your Book Online
Author
Language
English
Description
Are you thinking about writing and publishing your own book (or Ebook) online and making good money? Then look no further! In "From Pen to Profit: Your Ultimate Guide to Writing, Self-Publishing, and Marketing Your Book Online" you will discover all the secrets you need to turn your passion for writing into a real thriving business. Unleash your creativity and dive into the art of crafting engaging content that will keep readers hooked from page one....
Author
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a career, every engineer needs to communicate, in both written and oral form, with other engineers and non-engineers. Yet, too many engineers never develop this basic skill. Engineering Words draws on the authors' extensive experience as technical communicators and teachers of a popular class in technical communication for engineers at the University of California, Riverside, to present a comprehensive introduction to communicating...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's the start of a new year, and to celebrate, we're pulling together the best organizational and outlining strategies to set you on the path to success in 2023. Whether you're looking to recharge and reset with resolutions to protect your health or are ready to reach for the stars with your book sales, IAM has the tools you need to prepare for your best year yet.
Read three key articles: ✓ Five Plotting Methods You Can Use in Your Daily Life✓...
4) Write Your Bestselling Book in 8 Weeks or Less & Make a Profit - Even if No One Has Ever Heard of
Author
Language
English
Description
Are you planning to write a nonfiction book? This comprehensive guide will help you go from blank paper to published author in 8 weeks or less.
In this action-oriented guide, Melanie Warner, will walk you through the step-by-step strategy to becoming a published author. You'll be able to get your ideas out of your head and write your book quickly with this comprehensive book.
You'll learn:
How to find and refine your book idea
What it takes to...
Author
Language
English
Description
A wide-ranging collection of essays covering a multitude of topics: from how best to write technical documents for an international audience to can readability be measured. In the mix is a discussion on structured authoring, why human-generated indexes are important, ethical obligations on technical writers and manufacturers of goods, and much more.
This book is aimed at academics and practitioners of technical writing, and anyone whose employment...
Author
Language
English
Description
The first edition of Krista Van Laan's popular The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing has guided a generation of technical writers who are either starting out or seeking to take their skills to the next level. This classic has now been updated for the technical writer of today. Today's tech writers truly are technical communicators, as they build information to be distributed in many forms.
Technical communication requires multiple skills, including...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Language of Technical Communication has a dual objective: to define the terms that form the core of technical communication as it is practiced today, while predicting where the field will go in the future. The choice of terms defined in this book followed two overarching principles: include all aspects of the discipline of technical communication, not just technical writing, and select terms that will be relevant into the foreseeable future. The...
Author
Language
English
Description
MadCap Flare for Programmers shows how Flare manages and parses content and how you can interact with Flare outside the user interface. It introduces the structure of Flare content files and Flare output files, such as HTML5 help, and shows how you can manipulate those files.
With more than 50 examples in languages such as JavaScript, C#, Java, XSLT, and Visual Basic, this book covers most of the ways you can programmatically interact with MadCap...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Web changes how people use content; not just content on the Web, but all content. If your content is not easy to find and immediately helpful, readers will move on almost at once. We are all children of the Web, and we come to any information system, including product documentation, looking for the search box and expecting every search to work like Google. There is no first, last, previous, next, up, or back anymore. Every Page is Page One.
In...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures-what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing"-often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by...
11) DITA for Print
Author
Language
English
Description
As DITA has become more and more popular, demand has increased for tools that can provide high quality PDFs from DITA content. The DITA Open Toolkit provides a basic PDF capability, but nearly any real-world application will require customization. Leigh White's book, DITA for Print has become the go-to reference for building a print customization plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit. This second edition covers Open Toolkit, version 2, including customizing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Transnational Research in Technical Communication considers the complexities of intercultural projects from a compelling perspective: first-hand narrative reflections. Readers go behind the scenes as scholars share their experiences crossing a variety of borders in their efforts to engage in knowledge-making endeavors. Interwoven through each chapter are stories of how projects were designed, adapted, and sometimes even failed. The collection begins...
Author
Language
English
Description
Improved quality, risk reduction and better life, now is the time to change. Large enterprises are, challenged continually to meet the demands of today's ever changing market needs while still increasing quality. The impact to business reputation through failures in IT has never been so high. Challenges such as the pandemic hit, highlighting the need to change the way we worked, where we worked and with no notice to prepare for it at all. Given all...
Author
Language
English
Description
Welding Technical Communication explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives. The personal narrative relates the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld. The academic narrative draws upon scaffolded learning theory to examine how four welding teachers' verbal and nonverbal communication-their tutoring strategies and their gestures-facilitated students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice....
Author
Language
English
Description
Not intended to be read from cover to cover, this book was designed instead to be a quick and useful reference for students, young engineers, and experienced professionals alike. It provides guidelines, advice, and technical information for preparing formal documents-covering a range of report formats (e.g. assessment, laboratory, and progress reports). This concise, no-nonsense guide provides alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced topics, which...
Author
Language
English
Description
A Practical Guide to XLIFF 2.0 introduces the OASIS XLIFF standard. Companies use XLIFF to standardize the exchange of source and localized content with localization and translation vendors.
You will learn how to get the most from the XLIFF standard, use best practices in your translation workflow, extend XLIFF, and use the XLIFF modules.
This book is for localization coordinators, technical writers, content management system vendors, localization...
Author
Language
English
Description
Have you felt frustrated in the middle of your writing? Have you ever thought how wonderful it would be if you can have all aspects of writing included in one little resource that you could use? Well, if your answer to one or more of the above questions is a Yes, then you have come to the right place.
This book on writing covers a fairly exhaustive list of all aspects of this realm. You will be able to get tips and advice on the following:
●How...
Author
Language
English
Description
According to Infosys, 86% of consumers surveyed indicated that personalized content has some impact on what they purchase and 25% said that personalization plays a large role in their purchases.
And yet, looking at the data, two things stand out:
• Most companies say that personalizing the customer experience is a critical "must have," and they have the statistics to back it up.
• Very few companies believe they are delivering enough personalized...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eyes on the Future" is a beacon of light guiding you through the maze of technological marvels and scientific wonders that define our era. It empowers you to navigate the complexities of our rapidly changing world, equipping you with the knowledge and perspective needed to make informed decisions in an age of transformation. Through its pages, you'll uncover the threads that weave humanity's dreams into reality, one breakthrough at a time.
Author
Language
English
Description
Structured writing has never been more important or more confusing. We keep trying to do more and more with content, but we give ourselves less and less time to do it. Structured content can help keep your rhetoric on track and your processes efficient. But how does it do that and what is the relationship between rhetoric and process? It is easy to get lost in sea of acronyms and buzz words: semantics, XML, metadata, DITA, structure, DocBook, hypertext,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request